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Southampton, PA: February 16, 2004- Environmental Tectonics Corporation's (AMEX:ETC) Simulation Division, located in Orlando, FL, has been selected by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) to provide a $575,000 advanced, interactive, virtual-reality based airport ground vehicle driving simulator for Nashville Airport.
The Nashville International Airport enjoys an outstanding safety record and adheres to all FAA-approved runway safety plan recommendations. To further ensure that appropriate MNAA personnel are fully trained and equipped to handle runway incursions, MNAA decided to purchase an airport ground vehicle driving simulator from ETC that will provide a real-time, interactive, high fidelity, virtual environment for its Fire & Rescue (ARFF) and Operations & Maintenance teams to enhance their skills in driving various vehicle types throughout the airport and within flight line areas. The Simulator will also include features of ETC's Advanced Disaster Management Simulator (ADMSTM)), which is the most advanced virtual reality-based simulator available today that allows airports, airlines, fire departments and government agencies to simulate major airport incidents such as terrorist activities, fires, aircraft accidents, or natural disasters, for training and planning purposes. The Driver Training Simulator will provide a virtual environment that permits for airport-wide training to be conducted as if it were utilizing actual vehicles (fire trucks, police vehicles, snow removal equipment, baggage tugs, service trucks, etc.), but in a much safer cost-effective and controlled way. Airports worldwide must contend with the growing challenge of providing comprehensive training to personnel that are required to drive various types of vehicles throughout the airport and within flight line areas. The goal of this major initiative by MNAA is to further improve runway safety by eliminating runway incursions and improve safe vehicle operation. This kind of training is the direction that airports are increasingly taking to improve both the proficiency and efficiency of their personnel. This multi-year contract, which includes installation, long-term maintenance and options for equipment enhancement, adds Nashville International Airport to an elite list of ETC's airport customers that already include Chicago O'Hare International, Minneapolis St. Paul, Miami International, Honolulu International, Baltimore Washington International and Orlando Sanford International. Shabbir Merchant, President of the Simulation Division, stated, "With more than 400 airports in the U.S. airport system alone, ETC believes the MNAA contract will firmly enhance the company's position as the leading designer and supplier of simulation systems specifically developed to address full airport security, safety, and training requirements." ETC designs, develops, installs, and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems, and related products for domestic and international customers. This press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the Company that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any other future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as "may", "will", "should", "could", "would", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "continue", or the negative of such terms or similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, contract cancellations, failure to obtain new contracts, political unrest in customer countries, unfavorable results in litigation, general economic conditions, and those issues identified from time to time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and other public documents, including, without limitation, our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2003. |
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